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Cambodia to use helicopter gunships in logging crackdown
Feb 25, 2016 (AFP)
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday said he had authorised the use of helicopter gunships to crack down on rampant illegal logging in an effort to curb...
Fungi are at the root of tropical forest diversity - or lack thereof
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
The types of beneficial fungi that associate with tree roots can alter the fate of a patch of tropical forest, boosting plant diversity or, conversely, giving o...
Humans settled, set fire to Madagascar's forests 1,000 years ago
Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)
There's no question that our species has had a dramatic impact on the planet's physical environment, particularly over the last few centuries, with the rise of ...
Increasing drought threatens almost all US forests
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Forests nationwide are feeling the heat from increasing drought and climate change, according to a new study by scientists from 14 research institutions. "Over ...
Benefits of re-growing secondary forests explored through international collaboration
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
With the escalation of extreme weather conditions, rapidly melting polar icecaps and rising sea levels, combating climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emi...
Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Every year, thousands of people lose their way in forests and mountain areas. In Switzerland alone, emergency centers respond to around 1,000 calls annually fro...
Secondary tropical forests absorb carbon at higher rate than old-growth forests
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
At the climate talks in Paris, all attention was focused on how humanity can reduce climate change by reducing carbon emissions, or by increasing carbon uptake....
Forest losses increase local temperatures
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
An article by JRC scientists published in Science, reveals that the biophysical effects of forest losses substantially affect the local climate by altering the ...
Clemson scientist's research on tropical forests featured in the journal Nature
Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)
Clemson scientist Saara DeWalt is part of a collaborative study of second-growth tropical forests in Central and South America that will be published Feb. 11 in...
Recovering tropical forests a sponge for CO2: study
Feb 04, 2016 (AFP)
Tropical forests reclaiming land cleared for agriculture or livestock not only grow quickly, but absorb far more CO2 from the atmosphere than old-growth trees, ...
Cause for hope: Secondary tropical forests put on weight fast
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
How fast tropical forests recover after deforestation has major consequences for climate change mitigation. A team including Smithsonian scientists discovered t...
Study documents drought's impact on redwood forest ferns
Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)
The native ferns that form a lush green understory in coastal redwood forests are well adapted to dry summers and periodic droughts, but California's current pr...
Canada protects ancient Pacific coast forest from logging, hunting
Feb 01, 2016 (AFP)
Decades of protests and then negotiations that brought together loggers, natives and environmental activists resulted Monday in a landmark deal to protect a hug...
Landscape pattern analysis reveals global loss of interior forest
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss...
Over-hunting threatens Amazonian forest carbon stocks
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Over-hunting of large mammals in tropical forests could make climate change worse according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Tropical f...
New trial opens in Costa Rica environmentalist's murder
Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)
Seven men accused of brutally murdering Costa Rican environmental activist Jairo Mora and raping four American and Spanish colleagues went on trial Monday after...
NUS study shows the causes of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
Southeast Asia has the greatest diversity of mangrove species in the world, and mangrove forests provide multiple ecosystem services upon which millions of peop...
The Amazon's future
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Harvard researchers are challenging the widely-held theory that climate change could cause Amazon forests to rapidly change from forests to savannah. A new mode...
Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
California's forests are home to the planet's oldest, tallest and most-massive trees. New research from Carnegie's Greg Asner and his team reveals that up to 58...
Modeling Amazonian transitional forest micrometeorology
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
What can mathematical modeling teach us about the micrometeorology of the southern Amazonian 'transitional' forest? Quite a lot, it turns out. This particular f...
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